Home Values Are Rising by $800 a Day in San Jose

Re:Home Values Are Rising by $800 a Day in San Jose by taurath on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @02:29AM (#16799465)

I honestly think that a more modern version of "intentional communities" would really appeal to a lot of people. Cheap housing, walk able everything including grocery stores, a couple locally owned industries or two, and the support people to support them - it literally sounds like the dream to me. Suburbs are exclusion zones, and cities are so incredibly expensive and chaotic.

I'm sure there's 1000 economic and social reasons they can't be done, but damn if it doesn't sound good.

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Re:Home Values Are Rising by $800 a Day in San Jose by jngreenlee on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @10:56AM (#16801803)

You actually just described the modern approach to suburbs! Stapleton in Denver, Mueller in Austin are some examples. These basically become high priced, close in, suburbs.

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Re:Home Values Are Rising by $800 a Day in San Jose by Bartweiss on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @11:52AM (#16802279)

Interestingly, this sort of planned suburb seems to end up a lot like what we used to get organically.

Boston's inner suburbs are full of this sort of stuff - walkable stores, small business and light industry, 2-5 story buildings for housing. And it all feels a lot like the old quarters of many European cities.

Part of the change is building materials and cars, I suppose - what was obvious in 1850 now has to be planned to outcompete highrises and cars-first layouts. But an awful lot of it is just not outlawing what people already do if you let them; Boston's livable old suburbs are basically all illegal today.

http://cityobservatory.org/the-illegal-city-of-somerville/

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Re:Home Values Are Rising by $800 a Day in San Jose by imtringued on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @07:35AM (#16800563)

I'm wondering if chinese planned cities are designed to be bicycle and pedestrian friendly.

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